Shop and residence pair, once part of Garton's Hotel later Her Majesty's Hotel, 166-168, Shop and residence pair 172-174 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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Shop and residence pair, once part of Garton's Hotel later Her Majesty's Hotel, 166-168, Shop and residence pair 172-174 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2024:__________________________________________________166-168 Swanston Street:DATE: 1865-;ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Edmund Dean, Esq. ?;DESIGNER: Peter Thos. Conlon; Conlon & Salway;BUILDER: Mr Murdoch___________________________170-172 Swanston Street:c1860?More research required.Period: Early VictorianSign 1985: Coffee Lounge; El Cheapo Photos, Tobacconist___________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM___________________________VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY H7822-1646168 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITYThird land sale 1838, Allotment 18 Block 11, purchased by William Bawman. 1877 - three-storey building and yard, Hunt, "Fish". 1888 - three-storey building, Feltham, Oyster Saloon.___________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX17832 Conlon, Peter Thomas, VIC Hotels 1859 9 29 - Peter Thomas ConlonTenders wanted - alterations to Harry Jenkins Hotel, Swanston St.Argus 29.9.1859, p 840422 Conlon, Peter Thomas; VIC Shops 1865 10 2417833 Conlon, Peter Thomas; VIC Hotels 1865 8 2217834 Conlon, Peter Thomas; VIC Hotels 1865 8 24 Peter Thomas Conlon.Tenders wanted - building a hotel in Swanston St. for James Garton of Sandridge.Argus 24.8.1865 p 317831 Conlon, James Thomas; VIC Hotels 1876 5 3 James T. Conlon, architect, 55 Lt.Collins Street. Tenders invited for the erection of a Billiard Room and additions to Garton's Hotel, Swanston Street.Argus 3.5.1876 p 3 Conlon & Salway17835 Conlon & Salway; VIC Hotels 1879 8 27Tenders wanted for painting to Garton's Hotel.Argus 27.8.1879 p 317836 Conlon & Salway; VIC Hotels 1880 1 7 Conlon & SalwayAlterations (small job) to Garton's Hotel.Argus 7.1.1880 p 2.GEORGE WHARTONConstruction in progress on two shops and hotel at the south corner of Bourke and Swanston Street upon the site of the Royal Mail Hotel.General Contractor: T. Brown.Australian Builder 17.9.1859.77675 Garton, James Melbourne VIC alterations Murdoch, William - 16 Yarra St Emerald Hill 1867 01 21 1848- MCC registration no 1848 [Burchett Index]. Fee 2.10.0addition to premises Swanston77683 Garton, James Melbourne VIC Warehouses Garton, James - Garton Hotel 1870 12 7 4236- MCC registration no 4236 [Burchett Index]. Fee 1.0.0store, Swanston - Garton Hotel in yard___________________________Bibb's Melbourne Roll Plan 1854, PROVdoes not name hotel shows similar masonry plan as part of continuous development up to Royal Mail Hotel at Bourke St___________________________Whittock view c1854shows 3 story building set back from Swanston Sty with lower buildings in front___________________________DE GRUCHY & LEIGH, 1866. ISOMETRICAL PLAN OF MELBOURNE AND SUBURBS IN 1866Three story hotel at Bourke St corner adjoining what appear to be similar height row on south, gap to 3 storey building (Jenkins hotel?)___________________________State Library of Victoria Picture collection1875 aerial viewshows rear and south side Royal Mail at Bourke St corner adjoining3 storey balustraded parapeted shop and residence, gap to two 3 storey buildings of uneven width but with same balustraded parapet, abuts (hotel?) building on south with higher balustraded parapet and raised entablature.also see 1875 panorama, Old Treasury museum.1882A C Cooke panorama, 1882, State Library of Victoria shows similar to 1875 - Bourke St corner hotel at north end, 2 storey shop, one 3 storey shop, two storey shop, 3 storey pair abuts 3 storey hotel at south end.___________________________MAHLSTEDT FIRE INSURANCE PLAN SERIESSeries 1, Map no 8,188868-70, and 66 each 3 storey masonry apprx. 15' frontage, similar plans, L Levinson tailor 70, M Bentwitch tobacconist 68, FJ Feltham, oyster saloon 66, Bodega wine bar 14'9" frontage64 (2 storey),60-62 Her Majestys Hotel 30' frontage.19103 storey masonry, similar plans, Panman & Company, oyster saloon 168-172 - no 170; and 162-164 Her Majesty's Hotel , adjoining Royal Mail Hotel and shop on north___________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWVictorian buildings...Three-storey buildings at 168 and 172 and 174 Swanston Street were constructed by 1888, the height of the economic boom, and in that year housed, respectively, Feltham's oyster saloon, tobacconist M Bentwitch, and tailor L Levinson. In 1888, only a two-storey building at 166 Swanston Street existed therefore both premises at 166 and 168 Swanston Street were constructed after this year (Mahlstedt Map no 8, 1888).Contributory to Swanston Street South Precinct___________________________WEBThe Bloodied Wombat's Demolished Melbournesee https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/159174168074095494/.Pubs & Pokies: A history of poker machines in Australia 2016https://timegents.com/2016/08/07/pubs-pokies/By MICK ROBERTSSURPRISINGLY, way before ‘one armed bandits’ were introduced into Australian clubs, the new invention known as poker or fruit machines first made their appearance in the bars of pubs in the 1890s.One of the earliest media references to a poker machines in pubs was in Melbourne during 1895 when Frederick Hart Pollock (pictured), of Her Majesty’s Hotel, in Swanston Street, advertised “the latest invention” for sale on Friday May 31.Pollock was selling and exhibiting one of the machines at his pub. That same year, tote machines, invented for placing bets on horse racing were also appearing in pubs and tobacco shops.By the following year the pokies had taken hold, sitting on the bars of pubs and tobacco shops across the colonies, offering cigars as prizes. They were attracting a strong interest from punters.Picture: Melbourne Sportsman October 25 1898.___________________________Graeme Butler 2024 inspectionTwo shop and residence pairs with aligned balustraded parapet:166-168 with Corinthian engaged columns and arcaded fenestration at first floor level and arched pediments over the upper level windows, with shell tympanum, under a richly detailed cornice with balustrading above. Parapet modified at south end where pair adjoined former Her Majesty's Hotel building.170-172 altered (170) and plainer shop and residence pair with segmentally arched fenestration at first floor level and segmentally arched pediments over upper level windows under a richly detailed cornice with balustrading above.___________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE):1861MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR GIPPS WARDIn the evening a meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr Jones was held at Harry Jenkins' Hotel, Swanston street, to discuss matter connected with the election, and to consider the beststeps to be taken to expose the personation, and other artifices that had been resorted to, by the supporters of Mr Donovan. Mr Jones took the chair,….https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154844924A complimentary dinner, given by a number of the citizens of Melbourne, to Mr C.E. Jones, councillor for Gipps Word, took place yesterday evening at Jenkins's Hotel, Swanston street. Mr Shaw, of Shaw, Harnett and Co., occupied the chair, and Mr L. L. Smith, M.L.A., the vice chair....1865https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5772137TENDERS Hill be received until Monday for TAKING DOWN and BEBUILDING JENKINS' HOTEL, Swanston-street, for Charles Edmund Dean, Esq. Peter Thos. Conlon architect 30 Queen Street....First entry for Her Majesty's hotel 1885, earlier as Garton's or Jenkins1866 FebGarton's Hotel 1st cited see also transfer of Family Hotel at Sandridge to Mrs Garton?https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5777024.The Age Feb 1866:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155048375`The familiar restaurant, known as ' Harry Jenkins's,' situate in Swanston-street, has within the last few months, given place to handsome and commodious promises, called 'Garton's Hotel.'The exterior is unassuming ; the accommodation provided is that of a first-class hotel. The building is of three stories, and the internal arrangements have been constructed with a view to impart comfort in every department of the establishment. The sitting rooms are sumptuously furnished, the bulk of the articles being of colonial manufacture. The bedrooms, twenty in number, are roomy and lofty and hot and cold water baths are provided. The building was erected by Mr Murdoch, from plans by Mr Conlan, architect, at a cost of nearly £5000. Mr Garton has spared no expense, the internal fitting having cost him £3000. II is intended to extend the hotel by building a large dining-room and. billiard-room in the rear, over which additional bedrooms will be erected. This will, when completed, make the hotel the most commodious in the city. Mr Garton is familiarly known in connection with Garton's Hotel, Sandridge, which he occupied for years, until the premises were destroyed by fire. His experience as a landlord is in itself a recommendation that his new premises will be worthy of the patronage of his friends and the public..1867RECEPTION OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.A meeting of the Free Banquet Committee was held last night at Garton's hotel, Swanston street; Mr. L. L. Smith presiding. The various sub-committees were appointed, and the duties they were to perform decided upon….1898Melbourne Sportsman October 25 1898. illust drawing of1926https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244058627SWANST0N ST. DEALS£121,500 For Cluster of Old PropertiesA cluster of old properties In Swanston street, in the section between Little Collins and Bourke streets, cast side, has been sold to various purchasers for a total sum of £121,500.. The foot frontage values represented in these transactions range from £1500 to £1750 a foot.Details are as follows:— ''Her- Majesty's. Hotel, sold- on behalf of the Equity Trustees by Messrs. Edgar and Chandler, agents, to the Rev. Chook Cheong, for £45,000. With a frontage of 30 feet this shows a return of £1500 a foot. The depth of the site is 68 feet on the ground level, and 130 feet on the first floor, which is carried over Rainbow Alley at the rear. Adjoining the hotel. on the north side, Messrs. Hartley Bros, have bought, through C. J. and T. Ham Pty. Ltd., a shop with a frontage of 14ft. 6in., for a total consideration of £22,500 — approximately, £1550 a foot. The old Café Canton, adjoining the hotel on the south side, was bought by a leading 'Melbourne retail merchant for £5400, approximately £1750 a foot.___________________________DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL1860Bourke St( Royal Mail)70 Watson, Benjamin tailor,68 & 68 Goldberg & Krakowski, tobacconist ,1865, 1861Bourke St(72 Royal Mail)70 Graham, Francis oil and color man,68 Goldberg, A & Company, tobacconist ,66 Wren, T, fishmonger60-64 Harry Jenkins’ Hotel and Dining Rooms, Jenkins, Edward '64 Muirhead, J., poulterer....1870Bourke St(72 Royal Mail)70 Graham, Francis oil and color man,68 Goldberg, A & Company, tobacconist ,66 Hanneysee & Hill, fishmonger60 Garton's Hotel, James Garton.1875Bourke St(72 Royal Mail)70 Graham, Francis oil and color man,68 Morris Bentwitch tobacconist ,66 John Hunt, poulterer and fishmonger.1885Bourke St(72 Royal Mail)70 Graham, Francis oil and color man,68 Morris Bentwitch tobacconist ,66 John Feltham, poulterer and fishmonger.1893166 Her Majesty's hotel-Pollock, F. H.168 Warne, John S., oyster saloon172 Bentwitch, Morris, tobacconist174 Ince Bros, tailors178 Royal Mail hotel-Reynolds, P. H.Bourke st
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